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“List your AI X-Risk cruxes!” by Aryeh Englander


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[I'm posting this as a very informal community request in lieu of a more detailed writeup, because if I wait to do this in a much more careful fashion then it probably won't happen at all. If someone else wants to do a more careful version that would be great!]

By crux I mean some uncertainty you have such that your estimate for the likelihood of existential risk from AI - your "p(doom)" if you like that term -might shift significantly if that uncertainty were resolved.

More precisely, let's define a crux as a proposition such that:

(a) your estimate for the likelihood of existential catastrophe due to AI would shift a non-trivial amount depending on whether that proposition was true or false;
(b) you think there's at least a non-trivial probability that the proposition is true; and
(c) you also think there's at least a non-trivial [...]

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First published:

April 28th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wFmzoktuvf2WqhNNP/list-your-ai-x-risk-cruxes

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